Secretary of State in 1568 . ``He was strict and almost a Puritan in his religious beliefs and passionate in protecting the country from Catholic threat ' Spies were posted in various countries to pass on the information about politics and attitudes of Catholic nations towards England . The intelligence reports enabled Walsingham to trace the links of various Catholics in other countries to that in England and annul the plots and conspiracies . Most of the spies recruited were undergraduates from Oxford and...











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